The two oldest houses: the item at its true size

1835–1861, at the record's strength

The checklist asks for the two oldest houses individually, and for New Carlisle the record read across this build names exactly one dated house before the Civil War era — the Service House of 1860–1861 — and no second. That is printed as a finding about the record, not about the town: a village platted in 1835, with a merchant class by the 1850s, assuredly raised houses in the 1840s and 1850s, and some may stand. But no source reached in these passes — not the county histories, not the listing record, not the society's tellings — names an older house with a builder, a date and an address, and this section does not manufacture a pioneer-house pair to satisfy a floor. The settler is named and specific: the district nomination's building-by-building roster (GAP-NC6-ARCH-1), which dates the district's houses individually, and behind it the 1981 county inventory's New Carlisle entries, which recorded the town's stock house by house a decade before the nomination. When either is read at the page, the second-oldest and oldest-standing houses of the plat era will print with names and dates; until then the item stands at its true size — one house proven, the pair unproven — and the proof's absence is the article.

Sources

1. Nomination, Jeremiah Service House (Kopkowski, August 1999) — the one dated pre-1865 house in the record read.
2. Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory, St. Joseph County (1981), and the district nomination's roster — named as the settler class.